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BUSINESS DATA ANALYSIS
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By A Full-Time Business Data Analysis Consultant
Michael Olafusi is a Microsoft Excel expert and experienced trainer. He loves Excel so much that he quit his job in the Telecoms industry to focus on doing the impossible with Excel. He began his career as a Radio Access Engineer for Nokia Siemens Networks, then as a Business and MIS Analyst for Comviva Technologies doing revenue and KPI analysis for Airtel Africa CRBT operations in 10 African countries, and finally moved to 21st Century Technologies as a Performance Analyst and Service Delivery Lead. He is the training director of UrBizEge and is planning to revolutionize the entire business data analysis industry in Nigeria. And he is also the only Excel MVP in Africa and first ever Excel MVP from Nigeria.
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Global Business Is Powered By Data
My First Template Global Business Is Powered By Data NORTH AMERICA LATIN AMERICA AFRICA ASIA EUROPE AUSTRALIA
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The Ability To Analyze Data Is Now Vital
My First Template The Ability To Analyze Data Is Now Vital CONSTRUCTION ANALYSIS IMPROVEMENT RECONSTRUCTION
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Who Needs This Business Data Analysis Training?
My First Template Who Needs This Business Data Analysis Training? 01 Business Managers 02 Finance Analysts 03 Business Analysts 04 Project Managers 05 Sales Executives
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Data Manipulation
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Data Consistency As an Excel user, a lot of all your work in Excel will be interconnected and constantly evolving. We will cover the general rules you have to follow to make reports and analysis that can scale and be consistently used even as the projects you work on grow.
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Data Types Everything you type into Excel falls into one of four data types. They form the foundation of all you do in Excel. They are: Number Text Boolean Formula
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Planning for Scalability
In planning for scalability, you always have to Always work with the end in mind Use a pre-determined naming scheme of files, worksheets and data fields Name every sheet and file from the start Avoid having too many tables in one Excel sheet and many others…
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Data Sorting Sorting is one of the power user’s most used tool. It allows you to present data in an ordered fashion. We’ll cover: Top to Bottom sorting Cascaded sorting (by multiple levels) Left to Right sorting (advanced) Sorting by cell or font color
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Data Filtering Excel allows you to hide (or filter out) data with field entries you are not interested in. We’ll cover even special features of Filter. Filter enables you to make dynamic charts when used in a summary table Filter allows for arithmetic operation on the non-hidden data
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Data Cleaning Oftentimes the data we have is not in the form we need. We have to do some data cleaning. Removal of Duplicate entries Text-to-column to break a field to multiple fields Subtotal and Grouping to make reports less clumsy Data Validation to prevent errors
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Data Formatting No one will appreciate the numerous hours you’ve spent in Excel if your result is not well formatted. It’s like interior design, it gives beauty and value to your work. Format as Table Formatting for Print Formatting for Having the recipient or final user in mind
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Charts
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Chart Types Line Chart and when to use it
Column Chart and when to use it Bar Chart and when to use it Pie Chart and when to use it Other Charts Sparklines
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Combo Charts Excel allows you to combine 2 or more charts on the same graph. When to do this How to do this Using the same horizontal axis but two different vertical axes
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Best Practices Be careful about using a 3D chart for business reporting Use line charts to show trend over a period of time Use Column charts to show performance of independent metrics Use Bar charts when column charts will be too clumsy in display and many more …
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Pivot Table & Chart
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PivotTable PivotTable allows you to do instant analysis on a large data table. Default PivotTable Different Fields Applying Filter Changing field values Tabular PivotTable Using Formulas on Pivot table values PivotTable Tricks
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PivotChart & PowerPivot
PivotChart is simply a chart of the PivotTable. The unique features of the Pivot Chart PowerPivot is an addin for Excel 2010, but fully built into Excel 2013 & Excel 2016 It allows you to work with more external database and also on very large database.
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Business Data Analysis
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General Tools Of Analysis
Naming Sheets Moving and Copying sheets Inserting Sheets and Tab Color Linking Sheets in formula, special tips Freezing Panes and Splitting Windows Different Views – Normal, Page Layout and Page Break Preview
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Lookup Functions VLOOKUP HLOOKUP
Looking up the last data in a row or column Overcoming the limitations of VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP using INDEX and MATCH Creative use of LOOKUP
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Power Functions IF, SUMPRODUCT, RAND, IFERROR…
AND, OR, TEXT, LEFT, RIGHT, MID,… Text functions and special tricks COUNTIFS, SUMIFS and AVERAGEIFS Using the formula tab creatively Formula auto-complete Formula Evaluation
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Named Range, Goal Seek, Scenario Manager and Solver
Named Range and its practical uses Goal Seek and a very interesting practical example Scenario Manager and a typical use Solver and its use in solving practical business decision and production problems. Linear programming.
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Reports & Dashboards
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Features of a Dashboard
A screen view summary that is visual and automated Knowing how to pick the important metrics to visualize Knowing how to make a dynamic dashboard Letting the dashboard answer the most important questions and many more …
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Professional Reports Best Practices Having an Almighty sheet
Knowing what to send and what to keep Having the report audience in mind s: Done right the Excel way Excel reports and printing Power BI
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Excel to PowerPoint
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Excel to PowerPoint Linking Charts in PowerPoint to Excel
Embedding Excel sheets in PowerPoint Formatting Tables in PowerPoint Formatting Charts in PowerPoint PowerPoint tips
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Excel VBA
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Excel VBA Why you might someday need VBA Recording Macros
The Limitations of recorded Macros The easy way to writing your VBA program Getting vital help
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Engage Us Today +234-808-938-2423; +1-941-312-2094 info@urbizedge.com
My First Template Engage Us Today Register for Training We have the only Microsoft Excel MVP in Africa and have held training for people from Vodacom, Airtel, IBM, SABMiller, Nestle & Lafarge. UrBizEdge Limited, 20, Kofoworola street, Off Lagoon Hospital, Obafemi Awolowo road, Ikeja, Lagos. Nigeria Custom Programs We can build you programs to fix your unique business and data analysis issues. ; Outsource Your Data Analysis Don’t have the internal resources or want an expert to show the insights in your business data. We are who you need.
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